Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France). Documentation Center for Education in Europe.

Among the articles written in English in this newsletter are a discussion of the problems of educational leave in Austria's school system; restricted admission to higher education in Denmark; reorganization of secondary education in Finland; higher education admission requirements in the Federal Republic of Germany and on the reorganization of the 5th and 6th school years of all types of school into an orientation stage; also for the Federal Republic of Germany, a multimedia system for inservice training of teachers is presented; the middle school in the Netherlands; the radical measures sweeping through Portugal's education system; commission on working conditions in Sweden's schools, as well as proposals for reform of admission to higher education; and education, the general election, and recent publications of the National Foundation for Educational Research in the United Kingdom. (EB)